INTERCOLONIAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 38, 21 September 1905, Page 31

INTERCOLONIAL

At Brisbane Exhibition, Mr. John Farrell, coachman to iris Grace- Archbishop Dunne, secured hrst prize for ttoa best pair of buggy horses under 16 hands. This is the second year the Archbishop's horses have secured the blue ribbon. A' tender has been accepted for the Father Timoney memorial altar in St. Benedict's Church, West Sydney. The altar is to be constructed in Italy of alabaster and at a cost of £615. It will be the first of the kind in New* South Wales. His Grace Archbishop O'Reily of Adelaide was the chaplain to the settlement in which John Boyle O'Reilly, and the Fenian prisoners were held in Western Australia, in the district of which Fremantle is wow the centre. Father O'Reily was so sea-sick on the voyage to Australia, when he first came out many years ago, that, when he becamfe Bishop, he was relieved of the duty of visiting Rome. He has only just returned from his first visit to Rome since he joined the hierarchy. Mr, Frank B. Kelly, who so generously donated, ' in hia own q|uiet, unostentatious way,' to use the words of Dr. Gallagher, £500 to the new Kenmore Orphanage,, is one of the besit known and most popular merchants in Goulburn. He is a man of the most charitable disposition, ami always does good by stealth ; Mr. Kelly is an uncompromising Irish Nationalist, an enthusiastic Hibernian, and a worthy citizen whom the people of Goulburn hold in deservedly high esteem. The Very Rev. Dean O'Reilly, of Coolgandie, who was chosen by the priests of the Perth diocese as their representative at the Plenary Council in Sydney, has been over fifteen years in the diocese. There are few priests in that diocese who Dossess a better knowledge of the country than Dean O'Reilly. When he was stationed at Greenough ho used to make periodical trips up to Cue, camping for weeks in the open. As a friend of his observed,. ' there are few sliprails in the vast areas that those districts once embraced which have not been taken down by Dean O'Reilly.' „ Cardinal Moran's reference at the banquet) given by the Catholic laity of Sydney to the visiting prelates and clergy to the necessity of asserting Australia's position in the world could hardly have been better illustrated (says the ' Freeman's Journal ') than by his story of a post-card received from the Dublin Trinity College publishers a few days earlier, addressed to ' Cardinal Cullen, Sydney, United States of America ' The American postal authorities seem to have been better informed on geography as well as personality than the Dublin publishers. The cream of the joke lies in the fact that Cardinal Cullen was for many years Archbishop of Dublin. The Plenary Council having been solemnly opened at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, on Sirnday, September 3, J / lrSt ' P nvate sec;si on at St. Patrick's College on Monday and continued its sittings during; the week The first ttusmess of the Council was to desp-atclTthe following cablegram through Cardinal Moran : < To CarRome Tlf p r' al ', W Secrrt "T of State, Vatican, S°?- c ' X h °. Carfh "al-Archbis.hop of Sydney and the Ausnff" » B «r°, ps ; assc ™W«! at Sydney in Plenary Counthe triumphant issue of your noWe efforts for peace ' Dr A. L Konaiy, K.S.G., Melbourne, was h'iejhly honored ,on Atotfjst 24, when a farewel was given him in the Cathedral Hall, prior To leaving on an ext^ ed European tour. The Cathedral Club ™£ sente* a ndhly-ilh imina ted address. In brief form the wordUng recorded t'ho leading works in "which' Dr nS?S- A laken part ' nOt a bly the second Australian his Gaace tta Archbishop, Bishop Corbett, Hon. J Si DvD v OX - ML A -. Mr. Benjamin Iloare Senator Mulcahy(Ta.s m a™a}.ami the chairman. Dr. Ken^made a mortost and feeling rC plv, the keynote of which was ttat his evorv action in Church and other works hnd been ]/nspir«l by a deep s^nse of duty as a Oath ohc larmaii. Tho Bishops of Bendi^o apd Dallirat werd also present, besides a !arge Simber of the c \™ d Wty. Dr. Kenny was the first president ?i« A e JS'^ Ca J hcVdral Clu^. which, with Js Grace the Archbishop, he may be said to have foundod